ATLANTA, Ga. - The Georgia Supreme Court says the city of Brookhaven has the right to ban alcohol sales at adult businesses such as The Pink Pony.
The ruling came Monday morning following a legal battle that has stretched for months.
In a summary of the ruling, the courts stated Monday: "The high court has unanimously upheld a DeKalb County court's dismissal of the Pink Pony strip club's lawsuit against the new city government of Brookhaven. The Atlanta area strip club had challenged as an unconstitutional violation of free speech the City's new ordinance that bans nude dancing in establishments where alcohol is consumed." court officials noted.
Court officials also quote Justice Harold Melton “the established record regarding the deleterious effects of alcohol coupled with nude dancing, the trial court did not err by finding that, as a matter of law, Brookhaven's sexually-oriented business ordinance does not unconstitutionally infringe upon Pink Pony's free speech rights.”
Owners of the establishment have not commented on the ruling.
Note: A juice bar in Atlanta simply cannot compete when the are close to 40 nude clubs that can serve booze. The last 3 clubs that were forced into it by changes in their cities regulations are now gone.
